Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly Filipinos held a mass meeting in San Francisco, passed a resolution denouncing this description of them as savages, sent a copy to Quintin Paredes, Philippine Resident Commissioner in Washington. Before the Philippine Commonwealth was set up Commissioner Paredes, short, swart, swank, suave and banjo-eyed, was Speaker of the Insular House of Representatives and one of the Islands' leading politicians. When Manuel Quezon became the first Philippine President, he made it plain that he would brook no rivals in political power. The once-powerful Speakership was reduced to an office of no importance, and able...
...wife and three children immured in a Welsh castle at Amroth. he gives stag parties for the great at his farm at East Garston in Berkshire, in rebuilding which he hired only local people, becoming the village's chief support and eventually Master of Foxhounds of its swank Craven Hunt and president of the Hungerford Fat Stock Show. In neither of these squirely retreats did he discuss his third life as a concession-wangler among Eastern potentates whose Oriental courage and vanity genuinely attract him and whom he, like the late great T. E. Lawrence, genuinely impresses...
...sort of violence." She says she cannot help putting people in her landscapes or painting a sky red if she feels like it. Born 32 years ago to a merchant-banker in Aledo, Ill., Doris was brought up to be an "outdoorsy" gentlewoman. She went to a swank school in Lake Forest, majored in philosophy at Rockford College, became student art instructor, married a chemical engineer named Russell Werner Lee. In Paris she got pointers from André L'Hôte, in Kansas City from Ernest Lawson and the late Anthony Angorola, in San Francisco from Arnold Blanch...
...dress manufacturers and affiliates in the textile and coat & suit trades, has been developing for months. It came to a head recently in a series of incidents which retailers considered a highhanded abuse of the Guild's position. One day last month at Strawbridge & Clothier's, swank Philadelphia department store, a Guild investigator became quietly uppish. She demanded that a certain dress, in her opinion a copy, be removed from the floor and that she be told the name of the manufacturer. Its managers knew they had an agreement with the Guild, but they understood that the agreement...
Afterward in his private car King Edward and his aching leg muscles reached London early, drove not to St. James's Palace but to Mayfair's swank Turkish Baths in Jermyn Street where almost every employe is his oldtime friend. Calling to them: "Good morning! Good morning!" the Sovereign bathed Turkishly for 90 minutes, emerged daisy-fresh to find Jermyn Street almost obstructed by a curious throng of his subjects who cheered as his United-Kingdom-built car drove...